Agile Product / Project Manager Position Summary Olberding Brand Family is seeking an Agile Product / Project Manager to lead the planning, delivery, and adoption of enterprise applications, integrations, and digital workflow improvements. This hands-on role combines product management, project delivery, and business process analysis. You will work with business stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to identify needs, establish priorities, translate requirements into actionable backlogs, and deliver measurable business outcomes. We are looking for an effective facilitator who brings structure to ambiguity, encourages meaningful participation, and keeps teams moving toward decisions and delivery. Success requires balancing long-term product direction with the practical management of scope, schedules, dependencies, and risk. Key Responsibilities - Partner with business and technology leaders to define business problems, desired outcomes, product direction, and delivery priorities.
- Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and process workshops to understand current workflows and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitate productive discussions among business users, subject-matter experts, technical teams, and external providers, drawing out requirements and resolving competing priorities.
- Develop and maintain product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, release plans, and project schedules that connect business objectives to executable work.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
- Lead appropriate Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Manage scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues across concurrent initiatives, using Agile, traditional, or hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.
- Coordinate delivery across application configuration, software development, integrations, testing, and deployment.
- Hold internal teams and implementation partners accountable for commitments, deliverable quality, and timely resolution of issues.
- Challenge unnecessary customization and scope expansion, helping stakeholders evaluate standard platform capabilities and business value.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing, business readiness, training, and release communications to support successful adoption.
- Gather user feedback and analyze adoption, workflow performance, and business results to guide ongoing improvements.
- Provide clear reporting on progress, delivery forecasts, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- Coach teams and stakeholders in practical Agile methods, shared ownership, and continual improvement.
Required Qualifications - Five or more years of relevant experience in product management, project management, product ownership, or Agile delivery.
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, digital products, or business process improvements.
- Experience managing work from discovery and requirements through delivery, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
- Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to lead workshops, engage stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge, and drive clear decisions.
- Practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and the software development lifecycle, with the judgment to adapt delivery methods to the work.
- Experience creating product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and writing user stories with testable acceptance criteria.
- Ability to manage schedules, scope, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities across multiple teams.
- Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable work management tools, along with collaborative documentation platforms.
- Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers on APIs, integrations, data flows, and application dependencies.
- Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and escalate concerns constructively.
- Demonstrated ownership, follow-through, and ability to influence outcomes without direct reporting authority.
- Relevant education, professional training, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting ERP, CRM, workflow management, or other commercial enterprise platform implementations.
- Experience coordinating third-party software vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
- Background in business process analysis, user research, user experience, or digital adoption.
- Experience defining success measures and using dashboards, user feedback, and operational data to evaluate results.
- Experience helping organizations establish product ownership and ongoing improvement practices.
- Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMP, PMI-ACP, or a comparable credential.
- Familiarity with creative services, graphics, packaging, prepress, or production operations.
What Success Looks Like Business priorities translate into clear, achievable delivery plans. Teams understand what they are building and why, stakeholders make timely decisions, and risks surface early. New capabilities are adopted by users and produce measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and business performance. This role initially is a hourly Contractor position, with the intent to transition to a full time regular employee after 3-6 months. The Olberding Brand Family is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds.
For fastest consideration, please apply online to the Careers section of our website www.olberdingbrands.com. Only applications received through this process will be considered. No phone calls, please. Salary range for this role as a regular employee is $110,000 - $130,000
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